Empowering Students today to learn and become productive citizens requires educators to use approaches that engage them on a personal level with their learning. This can be achieved in a number of ways which include the use of technology, for which students are very familiar, to demonstrate solutions to real-life problems they have identified. There is no reason problem based learning can not only create this interest in learning for the student, while at the same time provide the foundation for learning curriculum standards.
Check out Keeping Up with the Digital Natives Blog as postings are made often to reflect additions or changes to technology resources and uses for the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA. You will find everything from classroom management tips when using technology to how to access technology resources and even what professional development activities are coming soon.
We welcome all visitors from around the globe and hope that within our wiki you find information that will become useful in your work. This wiki serves as a reference or living document reflecting the level of professional development the teachers in Clarksville-Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA receive. We are always on the lookout for new and better ways to make the tools technology provides more viable in the education of our students.
[In case you were wondering...the logo or icon for this wiki is actually a picture of a home in the historic Clarksville district two doors down from the Greenwood Technology Center where much of the Educational Technology Professional Development occurs. The photo was taken by Tyler, a student in the district, who was attending our Summer Student Digital Photography Camp in 2004. We loved the "David Winter" look he achieved. ]
Check out Keeping Up with the Digital Natives Blog as postings are made often to reflect additions or changes to technology resources and uses for the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA. You will find everything from classroom management tips when using technology to how to access technology resources and even what professional development activities are coming soon.
We welcome all visitors from around the globe and hope that within our wiki you find information that will become useful in your work. This wiki serves as a reference or living document reflecting the level of professional development the teachers in Clarksville-Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA receive. We are always on the lookout for new and better ways to make the tools technology provides more viable in the education of our students.
[In case you were wondering...the logo or icon for this wiki is actually a picture of a home in the historic Clarksville district two doors down from the Greenwood Technology Center where much of the Educational Technology Professional Development occurs. The photo was taken by Tyler, a student in the district, who was attending our Summer Student Digital Photography Camp in 2004. We loved the "David Winter" look he achieved. ]